What is Salt
What is salt Sodium chloride ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) or common salt is the chemical compound NaCl. Salt occurs naturally in many parts of the world as the mineral halite ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) and as mixed evaporites in salt lakes. Seawater has lots of salt; it contains an average of 2.6% (by weight) NaCl, or 26 million metric tons per cubic kilometer (120 million short tons per cubic mile, an inexhaustible ...
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